{"id":41282,"date":"2015-09-28T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41282"},"modified":"2022-02-24T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:37:09","slug":"crossing-the-color-line-race-sex-and-the-contested-politics-of-colonialism-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41282","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ohio University Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2015
\n364 pages
\n11 illus., 3 maps
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2179-6
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2180-2
\nElectronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4539-6<\/p>\n

Carina E. Ray<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies
\nBrandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa<\/a>. In Crossing the Color Line<\/em>, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters<\/a>\u2014their social practices, interests, and anxieties\u2014shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and for contesting its racial and gendered hierarchies of power.<\/p>\n

With rigorous methodology and innovative analyses, Ray brings Ghana<\/a> and Britain<\/a> into a single analytic frame by examining cases in both locales. Intimate relations between black men and white women in Britain\u2019s port cities emerge as an influential part of the history of interracial sex and empire in ways that are connected to rather than eclipsed by relations between European men and African women in the colony.<\/p>\n

Based on rich archival evidence and original interviews, the book moves across different registers, shifting from the micropolitics<\/a> of individual disciplinary cases against colonial officers who \u201ckept\u201d local women to transatlantic networks of family, empire, and anticolonial resistance. In this way, Ray cuts to the heart of how interracial sex became a source of colonial anxiety and nationalist agitation during the first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In “Crossing the Color Line,” Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters\u2014their social practices, interests, and anxieties\u2014shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,459,8,17,10],"tags":[5490,3224,7817,16934,3148],"class_list":["post-41282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-carina-e-ray","tag-carina-ray","tag-ghana","tag-gold-coast","tag-ohio-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63253,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41282\/revisions\/63253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}